[arch-general] Error when upgrading "reflector"

Daniel Wallace daniel.wallace at gatech.edu
Tue Jul 3 09:56:22 EDT 2012


On Jul 3, 2012 9:51 AM, "Szu-Han Chen" <sjchen at sjchen.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 09:28:03AM -0400, Benjamin Boudreau wrote:
> > Just got when doing a pacman -Syu:
> >
> > reflector-2012.7.1-1-any      10.8 KiB   672K/s 00:00
> > [#############################] 1
> > ...
> > (14/14) checking for file conflicts
> > [#############################] 100%
> > error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
> > reflector:
> > /usr/lib/python3.2/site-packages/__pycache__/Reflector.cpython-32.pyc
> > exists in filesystem
> >
> > Should I force the update?
> >
> > --Benjamin Boudreau
>
> Hey Benjamin,
>
> I saw this error too... But since reflector was really a one time
> thing i just did -Rns. --force shouldn't break anything.
>
> --
> --Szu-Han Chen (sjchen.com)
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Don't force it, it is from running reflector as root, just remove the
directory


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